Exuberant Radiant Living - Simple Steps to Health and Happiness

EXUBERANT RADIANT LIVING

Simple Steps to Health and Happiness

By William G. Paul (*) – COFFIG© for a Better Life

(Part 1) April 2016

  

HEALTH is wealth and the first can stand alone, but wealth not necessarily means health and when the later (health) is lacking there is no true happiness.

What are the “secrets of the world’s healthiest people”?  Truly these ‘secrets’ are principles of natural law which, if followed will result in health and happiness for anyone willing to apply them in their own personal life!

There is a simple plan followed by those interested in vibrant health and wellness. This lifestyle-conditioning program is based and built on very practical and effective concepts proven to decrease your risk of disease, and strengthen your body. These principles provide the foundation for dealing with any health condition successfully. Weimar Health Institute in Northern California created the acronym NEWSTART© to make these principles easier to remember. NEWSTART© stands for: Nutrition, Exercise, Water - Sunshine, Temperance, Air, Rest & Trust in Divine Power, we could safely say that there are a few other principles such as Hygiene and the Correct use of Clothing (we’ll later comment on these).

Applied individually, each health principle is very effective; but combined; the benefits are multiplied beyond what each one by itself could do.

Let’s analyze the first secret or life principle: NUTRITION (PROPER or IDEAL NUTRITION)

Food is vital to our health. It provides the building blocks for growth and repair, and fuel for energy. It is a key element in the length and quality of life. Poor diet contributes to weight gain, heart disease, cancer, and a host of other diseases.

Here is a practical and effective plan that provides a complete balance of essential nutrients for a radiant and exuberant health.

1.    Eat a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, grains and nuts, seeds and legumes, prepared in a simple tasty way. This will furnish all the nutrients the body requires. For maximum health and energy, the human body needs a low fat, moderate protein, high carbohydrate diet with sufficient micronutrients and fiber.

2.    Avoid protein from animal sources. Animal products provide an excess of fat, cholesterol and protein; they often carry harmful viruses and bacteria, as well as hormones, antibiotics, and other chemical concentrations.

3.    Limit fat, sugar and salt. Select naturally sweet foods such as dried fruit rather than refined sugar, and choose olives, nuts and avocados—all in moderation—rather than refined fats and oils.

4.    Eat a good breakfast, a moderate lunch, and a light supper—or skip the evening meal entirely. A large breakfast containing a proper balance of nutrients will give you steady energy all morning (real sustainable energy). According to the notable Alameda County Study, eating breakfast has nearly as much of a positive impact on health and longevity as abstinence from tobacco. Timing is an important factor in dietary health. Food eaten in the morning is used during the day. Taken in the evening, it is stored as fat. Studies have shown that people have lost as much as ten pounds (10 Lbs.) a month merely by timing their meals correctly. There is wisdom in having two meals a day instead of three, but if you need three, make your evening meal the lightest and have it at least 2 hours before sleeping.

5.    Instead of starting your day with a cup or two of caffeinated coffee seeking to have the needed ‘punch’ for the new day…ENJOY a cup or two of COFFIG (Roasted Mission Figs) which will provided real sustainable energy throughout your day without any acid stomach or heartburn, without any jitters or tremors, without that “I’ll give you temporary energy & then I’ll take it away game”, or without any high blood pressure, headache or irritability, etc. If you’re not ready to completely cut your caffeine intake, then start reducing or substituting your daily regular coffee with COFFIG by adding this healthy coffee alternative to your coffee, start replacing 1 scoop or spoon of coffee by 1 scoop or spoon of COFFIG then you can increase to 2 scoops or spoons of COFFIG and so forth until imperceptibly you’ll be thriving with COFFIG for a Better and Longer Healthier Life, free of the harmful effects of “miss caffeine”

Interested in COFFIG? Locally in Klamath Falls you can purchase it in Sherm’s  / Thunderbird (a Food4Less Co.) just ask anyone in the Natural Foods Dept. for COFFIG, the FIG ENERGY DRINK or order yours online through our www.COFFIG.com/shop website. COFFIG Online has FREE SHIPPING on all orders!   

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(*) The author was trained (1994) as a Massage - Hydro Therapist & Wellness Lifestyle Promoter under Dr. Charles Thomas Ex-Director of Loma Linda’s Hydrotherapy Department at Dessert Hot Springs Therapy & Wellness Center, CA.   

 To be continued…

Caffeine & Menier...Do they Match?

Caffeine & Menier…                      Do they Match?

Millions around the world enjoy daily various drinks which are based or produced mainly from caffeine or other similar alkaloids and nerve stimulants such as found in coffee, black tea, mate and myriad of commercial sodas and soft drinks. These consumers, in its majority don’t really understand or have been well informed on the serious dangers that these potent alkaloids mean to the wellbeing of its consumers.

In this article we would like to introduce the topic of the dangers of one of these “legal” stimulants and narcotics which has been wrongly labeled and commonly used as food or drink.

Under the head of stimulants and narcotics is classed a great variety of articles that, altogether used as food or drink, irritate the stomach, poison the blood, and excite the nerves. Their use is a positive evil. Many seek the excitement of stimulants, because, for the time, the results are agreeable. But there is always a reaction. The use of unnatural stimulants always tends to excess, and it is an active agent in promoting physical degeneration, weakness and decay.                                                                        

                     COFFEE (caffeinated coffee) 

The action of coffee (tea and mate also acts as a stimulant and, to a certain extent are very similar to caffeine) and many other popular caffeinated drinks such as the so called “energy drinks”, produces intoxication. The first effect is exhilarating. The nerves of the stomach are excited; these convey irritation to the brain, and this in turn is aroused to impart increased action to the heart and short-lived energy to the entire system. Fatigue is forgotten; the strength seems to be increased. The intellect is aroused, the imagination becomes more vivid.  

Because of these results, many suppose that their tea or coffee is doing them great good. But this is a mistake. Tea and coffee do not nourish the system. Their effect is produced before there has been time for digestion and assimilation, and what seems to be strength is only nervous excitement. When the influence of the stimulant is gone, the unnatural force abates, and the result is a corresponding degree of languor and debility.  

The continued use of these nerve irritants is followed by headache, wakefulness, palpitation of the heart, indigestion, trembling (jitters), heartburn, gastritis, acid stomach and many other evils; for they wear away the life forces. 

Tired nerves need rest and quietness instead of stimulation and overwork. Nature needs time to recuperate her exhausted energies. When her forces are provoked on by the use of stimulants, more will be accomplished for a time; but, as the system becomes debilitated by their constant use, it gradually becomes more difficult to rouse the energies to the desired point. 

The demand for stimulants becomes more difficult to control, until the will is overborne and there seems to be no power to deny the unnatural craving. Stronger and still stronger stimulants are called for, until exhausted nature can no longer respond. 

Portions for this  Article have been taken from the book Ministry of Healing by E.G. White 

Studies and observations are linking caffeine with the menier condition, the negative effects of caffeine on persons suffering from menier is making many people to wean and leave caffeine for good, seeking to find other hot and cold natural drinks and beverages that will not harm the human system. People around the world are actively looking and researching products (in this case natural and healthy beverages made caffeine free) that will enhance and support their overall wellbeing. 

Roasted and Ground Figs, as in the case of COFFIG, supports a healthy and active lifestyle, many satisfied consumers of this unique and even exotic natural beverage have found that once they start using and enjoying their daily COFFIG hot or cold drink they don’t crave anymore their caffeinated coffee, and this is a pleasant surprise for many, besides a great number of persons suffering from menier have found that the nausea, vertigo and other similar symptoms associated with menier don’t manifest  as often (and for many at all) when they stop drinking caffeine or any caffeinated beverage. 

Answering the initial question posed as the title of this article, it seems clearly evident that caffeine and menier don’t match at all!  What a blessing to have natural and healthy alternatives to caffeine and to regular coffee, being produced right here in the North Pacific of United States!

Few personal unsolicited testimonies from satisfied customer…

“Dear Mr. Paúl -  I just received my shipment of COFFIG on Saturday.  Thank you for such prompt service.  I first tried your beverage while visiting my brother-in-law in the ICU at the hospital.  We were there for several days.  I have not had regular coffee in over 20 years because the caffeine bothers me.  

One day they were offering samples of COFFIG which smelled wonderful.  I wished I could have a cup.  What a surprise when I was told it was made from figs and Non-GMO figs.  I had to have some.  It was rich and delicious and provided me a small comfort at a difficult time.  I ended up having  two cups that day.  So as soon as I came back home, I knew I had to order some.   

As I am very health conscious, this fits right in with my lifestyle.  Many thanks to all those who are making such a wonderful product.  

Sincerely,  Roseann N.   A happy new customer!  

Your COFFIG is just DELICIOUS!

Sent from Mail for Windows 10 on Sept. 27, 2015” 

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Hi Paul,

I learned about your product while searching for coffee alternatives.  Coffee just does weird things to my body and I know it isn't just the caffeine.  So I was looking for other products.  I love figs so when I saw this, it sounded great!!  I hope it will be wonderful!!  Blessings to your team!!  

Susan Jenssen - June 29, 2015     A Delighted Online Customer  

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Hello COFFIG Team: Just tried the COFFIG hot and cold.  WOW, I really like it and it is the closest to coffee I have come across!!  You made an amazing product with God's original gift to your family!!  Tomorrow I am going to make it a little stronger and try making it like a latte!!  I am thrilled!!  It tastes GREAT and it is good for you all rolled into one!!  I pretty much do not want to eat or drink anything that wasn't originally designed by God for us to consume.  I did pray before searching and am so pleased that God had me keep looking on Google until I found your site!!   I think it was on page 4, but not sure.  I am so thankful that He connected us!!  I will go onto Facebook as you suggested. 

Thanks again for a wonderful product!

A very satisfied online customer - July 06, 2015

If you would like to get more information on Wellness Lifestyle Caffeine FREE COFFIG please visit www.COFFIG.com  or  www.Facebook/Coffig 

So You Love Coffee?

SO YOU LOVE COFFEE?…

It’s an Insidious and Harmful Indulgence!

To those who drink coffee, do you truly believe that caffeine is not detrimental to your well being, but in fact favorable? That its consumption aids productivity; that its use is necessary for performance? I beseech thee to examine this habit. With scrupulous attention, study the basis for its desire in the system, and its effect on the body and mind. Exercise self-control and keep the body in subjection for the sake of the experiment. Determine for yourself if this stimulant is truly advantageous. Do not rely solely on the fact that many have reached old age, while consistently indulging; this argument will in no wise convince the temperate.

The truth is, for those who have ears to hear, coffee is a harmful indulgence. Do not be fooled, though it momentarily stimulates the mind and invigorates the imagination, know that there are serious repercussions. Like alcohol, coffee has a pernicious effect on morality. A peaceful man often becomes belligerent when intoxicated with strong drink. Similarly, a person who is kind and patient becomes irritable and rash by the indulgence of coffee. This injurious beverage debilitates the mind, and leaves the body exhausted. The deceptiveness of coffee is not well understood due to man’s short sidedness. 

We trade in our health, life’s most precious gift, for fleeting worldly treasures. We perish “for a lack of knowledge” {Hosea 4:6}, and every cup of coffee taken lessens the mental powers. Being deceived by the short term boost in energy, the mind is consequently left lethargic. Habitual coffee drinking is very much like global monetary policy. The unconstitutional central bank, who refuses to allow mal-investment to crash, prints money and continues to misallocate resources; and in the short term is able to prop up the economy; but afterwards leaves the population prostrated with no employment. A country must produce in order to become wealthy and not borrow from its reserves, lest the nation becomes bankrupt. The human body must build itself up on fruits, grains, vegetables, and seeds. The body needs proper rest and lots of water. Those who use coffee to accomplish tasks strain the nervous system to complete untimely requests. Like central bank monetary policy we borrow future resources for its present use. By drinking coffee we are misallocating our time and physical resources. The action the mind takes is unwonted; and though things may be accomplished in the short term, the crash is greater than the stimulus. How appropriate is it that the euphemism for money printing is called “stimulus.” The central bank never had the right to borrow reserves from the citizenry because it does not belong to them. 

We do not have the right to drink coffee, thus taxing our system, because this body belongs to God. It is written, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are… What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” {1Cor. 3:16-17, 6:19} Take the time to study the organic laws of our nature. Due to ignorance, many defile the temple of God. Would any claim that God’s temple, the temple of the Holy Ghost, belongs to them? “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” {1Cor. 6:20}. Our bodies were purchased with the blood of Jesus. By drinking coffee, ignorant or not, we trodden the blood of Jesus underfoot.

Those who eat fatty animal flesh or rich foods, and drink coffee must take this message to heart. The combination of these wearing habits can be fatal. Heart Disease is an epidemic, its claims an unbelievable amount of victims. Our diet plays a paramount influence on our blood pressure (hypertension). 

By subsisting on flesh meats, or too much poor fatty foods, there becomes an extreme risk of a cardiovascular event (CVE). A determining risk factor for a heart attack is high blood pressure. Coffee can increase the risk of a CVE because it “exerts an acute unfavorable effect on aortic stiffness.”1 There is a relationship between arterial stiffness and an increased risk of cardiovascular event like a heart attack.

1{Caffeine increases aortic stiffness in hypertensive patients presented in preliminary form at the 17th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Hypertension, May 14–18, 2002, New York, N.Y.}

  This article was written by Enoch Leffingwell and used with the permission and authorization of it’s author.

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